Re: [Resteasy-developers] Could not find MessageBodyWriter for response object of type: java.util.ArrayList of media type: application/xml

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

On 11/14/11 2:20 PM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
>
> Am 14.11.2011 um 14:47 schrieb Bill Burke:
>
>>
>> Its type erasure.  Use GenericEntity as Xavier suggested.  You are
>> probably marshalling JAXB?  The problem is Resteasy can't determine the
>> type of the list by just passing it in as the generic type information
>> is not available.
>
> What puzzles me though is that the json providers are able to correctly marshall the
> List<X>
>

It is illegal to marshal a List in pure JAXB. :)  Sure you can embed a 
list within an object, but on its own, nope.  Plus this is a matching 
thing.  Jackson will match anything.  A Jaxb provider matches on whether 
or not a JAXB annotation is provided on the type.

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Bill Burke
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